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3. Literary Rewritings of History and Politics After 9/11

Author : Oana-Celia Gheorghiu

Published in: British and American Representations of 9/11

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The texts selected for analysis in this chapter provide representative transpositions of political and journalistic discourses into fiction. They are divided into two categories: narratives that refer directly to the 9/11 attacks—such as Iain Banks’s Dead Air (2002)—and narratives about the most important outcome of the attacks: the global ‘war on terror’. This chapter comprises analysis of the political speeches, quoted verbatim or imaginary, present in David Hare’s documentary play Stuff Happens (2004), and the influence of the media on the 2005 novel of modernist inspiration, Saturday, by Ian McEwan, in order to make a case for neorealism at work in 9/11 fiction.

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Footnotes
1
Department of Defense News Briefing—Secretary Rumsfeld and General Meyers, 11April 2003, Available from http://​www.​defense.​gov/​transcripts/​transcript.​aspx?​transcriptid=​2367 Accessed on 17 March, 2014.
 
2
Hans Blix, the head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, declared in his report to the UN Security Council, on 14 February 2003, that they could not identify any compelling evidence that Iraq had hidden nuclear weapons. The report is available on the United Nations website.
 
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Metadata
Title
Literary Rewritings of History and Politics After 9/11
Author
Oana-Celia Gheorghiu
Copyright Year
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75250-1_3